Ad-hoc scalar implicature in adults and children

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2134-2139

  Stiller, Alex ^a   Goodman, Noah D ^a   Frank, Michael C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

language acquisition; pragmatics; Scalar implicature

Indexed keywords

COUNTERFACTUALS; INFORMATIVENESS; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LEXICAL ITEMS; LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION; PRAGMATIC; PRESCHOOL CHILDREN; REAL-WORLD; SCALAR IMPLICATURE; YOUNG CHILDREN;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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